Life
?-?; author of Irish Priests in the Penal Times (Waterford 1914),
based on papers in the Public Record Office, now lost.
Works
Patrick Corish, intro., The Irish Priests in the Penal Times, 1660-1760 [rep. of 1st edn.] (Shannon: IUP 1969), vii, 491pp.
Commentary
Maureen Wall, Catholic Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Gerard O’Brien (Dublin: Geog. Publ. 1989), notes that William Burke’s Irish Priests in the Penal Times (Waterford 1914), later to prove invaluable due to the loss of original records in the Public Record Office fire [q.p.].
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